It is credited with popularizing the format as one of the first dedicated blog-publishing tools. Pyra Labs launched Blogger on August 23, 1999.
Google Blogger has a wide international user base and is available in more than 60 languages, despite its decline in popularity in the United States. All such blogs and websites had to be redirected to a subdomain or point their own domain to Google's servers via DNS.
Google Blogger also enabled users to publish blogs and websites to their own web hosting server via FTP until May 1, 2010. A user can have up to 100 blogs or websites per account. Blogs can also be accessed from a user-owned custom domain (such as by using DNS facilities to direct a domain to Google's servers. Google hosts the blogs, which can be accessed through a subdomain of. Pyra Labs developed it before being acquired by Google in 2003. Blogger is an American online content management system which enables multi-user blogs with time-stamped entries.